Three pics from the first slide scans

These are from the first 50 scans my father-in-law and I managed yesterday from Timm's massive archive of slides. Wade is going to work on the scans as he has time and interest. I'm not sure how far he'll get but I'm grateful for whatever effort he will make.

I don't recognize these images from Timm's digital archives, so I'm going to guess that they have never yet been made public.

My vague idea right now is to get all of the slides scanned in some identifiable manner, log each slide with whatever information I have, and then look at the whole with an eye to making the best images available to others, perhaps donating portions of the archive to his major commercial customers.

Right now it's like entering a wood with only the arc of the sun to orient the way; what few details Timm wrote on slide sleeves or individual slides, the manner in which he organized his digital work, and hunches derived from how I believe Timm and I think alike (which I can only trust so far).

Christie has been helpful in providing some of the facts of the shoot; this week she sent the following about the "Grants Pass" photos I posted under the title, "A Walk In The Wild." So I believe that some photos in Timm's archive will have depths while many will remain glyphs, images only, which, perhaps, is the medium in which photos were meant to be experienced - at face value, the image wholly responsible for conveying the message. Such simplicity places a great burden on the photographer - every nuance and trope has to be in plain sight, the vast universe outside and inside annealed in two dimensions only, the breadth and height of the frame.

I look forward to many new and exciting images as I go deeper into Timm's wilderness archive, and I'll be sure to share what I find.

***

Christie e-mailed the following comments for the post, "A Walk In The Wild":

"It was raining for most of the drive to the Gorge then overcast and chilly for the rest of the day: Not the best weather for shooting pictures, but you never know. The first 2 pics are of Multnomah Falls, shot from the parking lot across the highway to capture its astonishing impression. At 620 feet, it's the second highest fall in the United States. It comes with a 2 mile paved trail - yes, even baby strollers can make this hike - and the trail wends its way up the mountain overlooking the Columbia River Gorge, a magnificent sight. The river is 4 miles wide and has to be nature at its finest. Halfway up the mountain is a bridge crossing, as you're suspended on the bridge the rush of the water is so powerful you can the feel the force of the water pounding the ground beneath you. It's an amazing reminder of how small and helpless we are when it comes to the forces of nature.

"...The trail we hiked that day was Eagle Creek. It was familiar to us, we found it hard to resist the 7-mile roundtrip to enjoy another day of nature's splender rewarding us with breathe taking views of Punchbowl Falls. Along with Multnomah Falls and The Vista House, located at Crown Point, these 3 sites are the most-photographed along the Columbia River.

"We were at upper Punchbowl that afternoon, it's a 30 ft fall encased in a huge mossy rock bay with a long narrow tree that's fallen from above and lays against the rock at a 60 degree angle (you might have seen this pic already). Timm and I had lunch on the bedrock bank while watching others, we enjoyed the sights and sounds as they came and went over the course of an hour sitting there.

"The lighting was terrible that day, so Timm wasn't going to shoot anything. But resistance was futile when he had a camera in hand. Intrigued with the rocks in murky water, he set up the tripod and there we stood looking down at rocks, removing twigs, taking one shot after another just talking about the rocks for about an half hour - should we move some of them? maybe clean one or two to see how it looks?

"The other shot with a 2 foot baby fall, is the top of lower Punchbowl, it's a 15 foot drop, but the pic's don't show it, nor does it show upper Punchbowl he took the shots from different angles that day.

"I hope you can find some shots of Punchbowl - just for you to see, it's a beautiful place and Timm loved its tranquility. I think his shots are from ground level, nothing from above, but I could be wrong. Also The Vista House is located on Crown Point over looking the Columbia Gorge, all this is located with in miles of one another. The sunsets there are the best. I recall him taking pics of us there but not sure when."